Learn More About PPC Marketing

PPC marketing is a great way to expose your company and product to interested customers. In the PPC (pay-per-click) marketing model, part of an inbound marketing strategy, an advertiser bids on certain keywords that users type into search engines, in order to display a related ad to those users, hopefully drawing them in to the advertiser's site.

For example, an online pet store owner may bid on the keyword "dog collars." When a person searches for dog collars via Google or another search engine, the owner's ad may be triggered. What determines if and in what position the ad appears in the sponsored links on the search engine results page (SERP)? A combination of the bid and the ad's Quality Score, which is a measure of:

That may sound simple, but there's actually a lot of work that needs to go on in the background to ensure a high degree of relevancy across a wide range of PPC keywords. And you need a wide range of keywords if you want to capture a broad audience (and customer base).

Most of the available keyword tools, however, are built for one-time use. Take Google's keyword suggestion tool—PPC marketers use it to generate a list of keywords, export that list into an Excel spreadsheet and then update it infrequently, if ever.

The problem with this approach is that search trends are always changing. What's popular today may not be popular in a month or two, and if you never update your keyword research you'll miss out on all kinds of possible variations. In addition, if you don't update your list, it can't expand. Keyword expansion and aggregation are crucial if you want your PPC marketing results to improve over time, rather than stay the same or worsen.

WordStream's PPC software is a unique way to perform continuous keyword research. WordStream integrates directly with your AdWords account, so new search queries that drive visitors to your website are constantly being pulled into your research. Your keyword research is up-to-date and expanding every day. You can use those keywords—which are completely personalized and private—to build and improve your PPC marketing campaigns and acquire valuable new customers.

So Many Keywords! How to Group & Organize for PPC Marketing Success

With a large keyword database that's continually growing larger, you can't afford to just plop everything into a spreadsheet and hope for the best. You need an effective way to organize your keywords. And segmenting your keywords into tight, relevant groups is an extremely important aspect of keyword organization. Remember that relevance is the key to high Quality Scores and strong PPC marketing ROI. When you group your keywords by relevance, you're setting yourself up for success, because:

Small segmentations encourage bidding on narrower keywords, which are less competitive and less costly—and also attract more qualified searchers.

When your ads are more specific and relevant to the keyword, your click-through rate improves, which also has a positive effect on Quality Score.

These are just a few of the ways that search engines reward PPC marketers who group keywords intelligently. But if you've got thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of keywords for PPC search engine marketing purposes, proper organization gets really difficult really fast—at least in a typical spreadsheet application.

WordStream overcomes the difficulties of keyword grouping for PPC marketing with a powerful suite of keyword grouping tools. Our keyword grouping tools analyze your keywords and make smart grouping suggestions based on keyword relevance. Manually searching through thousands of columns and cutting and pasting cells is a long and frustrating process prone to human error. WordStream's keyword grouping tools do the dirty work for you, sorting similar keywords together in seconds. You can quickly segment a very large database into a tidy and logical hierarchy.

As the WordStream tracker pulls new keywords into your database every day, they'll be automatically sorted into your existing groups, saving your team a ton of time and effort than can be better spent on more strategic paid search marketing tasks. With WordStream pay per click company, your PPC campaigns will grow in size, relevance and value, reducing the time and money you spend on SEM and PPC marketing.